Lucy Vader: Weather dependent - Art Collector

The animals that populate my paintings are those with which we have a close working relationship. Those animals on who’s back in part we’ve built an economy, and whose fate, along with ours, is dependent on the weather. I find the animals appealingly stoic and observant. Formally, I prefer incorporating their figures into my abstract scenes as an anchor that serves to switch abstraction to reality.

In my subject and technique I like to run a fine line between abstraction and representation, going sometimes quite wild with colour, then pulling back into fact, resulting hopefully with a scene that can be felt, and comprehended.